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On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 2 | November 1971 | Pages 266-273
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22360
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Resonance parameters for 74 resonances of 165Ho below 500 eV, selected from the literature and from values compiled and recommended in BNL-325, are used as the starting point in fitting the total neutron cross-section data to a sum of the Breit-Wigner multilevel scattering and single-level capture formulas. The addition of two bound levels, one for each s-wave spin state, yields a calculated ratio of thermal neutron capture cross sections for the two s-wave spin states which agrees with experiment (≈60% of thermal capture into J = 3 states), as does the calculated value of the thermal capture cross section, 67 b. In addition, the two bound levels enable the fit of the total cross-section data to be extended to very low energies (0.2 mV). The coherent scattering cross section has been calculated and is in good agreement with the experimental value of 9.1 b. The free atom nuclear scattering cross section has been calculated to be 10.6 b. The calculated value of the potential scattering is 7.8 b and the effective scattering radius is 7.9 f. The energy-dependent paramagnetic scattering cross section (23.5 b at 0.0253 eV) and the capture and scattering resonance integrals have also been calculated (≈703 and 125 b, respectively).